Klaus Landa

Klaus Landa (2015)

Klaus Landa (born March 26, 1974 ) is an Austrian historian , Germanist and social scientist as well as managing director of the Association of Upper Austrian Museums .

Live and act

Klaus Landa grew up in Perg and studied at the Paris-Lodron University in Salzburg . He completed his history studies in 2004 with a dissertation on the subject of “ Lord and priest”. The representatives of secular and spiritual power from the point of view of their contemporaries in the Middle Ages and the present ”. Professionally, he initially worked as a trainer in adult education and as a freelance publishing editor for several Austrian publishers.

He gained organizational experience as a curator and exhibition organizer at Lambach Abbey . He was responsible for the conception and implementation of the anniversary exhibition Im Fluss - am Fluss - 950 Years of Lambach Abbey in 2006 and the permanent exhibition that opened in 2007.

Landa has been running the virtual museum forum oö history since 2007 . Since mid-2011 he has been Chairman of the Association of regional and local history in Folk Culture Forum Upper Austria and since 1 January 2012, managing director of the association of Upper Austrian museums.

Publications

from 2005 several articles in the journal Vierteltakt, communication instrument of the Upper Austrian folk song company:

Im Fluss - Am Fluss - 950 years of the Lambach Benedictine Abbey - Anniversary exhibition in Lambach in 2006 (2006)
The vocal ensemble VIA VIA (2008)

from 2006 several articles in the museum information sheet of the Association of Upper Austrian Museums:

Museum of the Month December 2007: Steel History Club (2007)
New in the history forum (2007)
Art in Upper Austria under National Socialism (2009)
forum oö history - new research options (2009)
Museum theme of the month, Museum Mechanische Klangfabrik (2009)
News from the forum oö history, Upper Austria in the Middle Ages (2009)

from 2007 several articles in the Upper Austria culture report:

Museum of the Month December 2007: Steel History Club (2007)
Museum of the month: Linz Museum for the History of Dentistry (2008)
Museum theme of the month, The Ship People's Museum in Stadtl-Paura (2009)
Museum theme of the month, Museum Mechanical Sound Factory in Haslach (2009)
Museum Topic of the Month, Magic Arts in Linz and the World (2009)
Upper Austria. Railway and Mining Museum, Lokpark Ampflwang (2009)

(Editor): Christianity has to grow. Festschrift for Abbot Gotthard Schafelner OSB - 20 years Abbot von Lambach. Lambach 2006, 101 pp.

Haimo - a medieval scribe monk. ibid, pp. 13-18.

(Editor): In the river - on the river. 950 years of the Lambach Benedictine Abbey. Anniversary exhibition at Lambach Abbey from March 20 to October 26, 2006, catalog, Lambach 2006, 156 pp.
Literature in Upper Austria at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Schnopfhagen: Environment - Life - Work, Upper Austria. Volksliedwerk / Volksliedarchiv by Klaus Petermayr (Upper Austrian writings on folk music), Linz 2008, pp. 29–40.
New online music history in Forum OÖ. History. In: EuroJournal Linz - Mühlviertel - Bohemian Forest. 14th year, Linz 2008, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
with Thomas Jerger (editor): Rethinking local museums! Report of the 9th Upper Austrian Museum Day 2010, Leonding 2011.
with Christoph Stöttinger, Jakob Wührer (editor): Lambach Abbey in the Early Modern Age. Piety, Science, Art and Management by the River. Proceedings of the symposium in November 2009, Linz 2012, ISBN 978-3-902801-10-4 .